George R. Latham

George Robert Latham (9 March 1832-16 December 1917) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-WV 2) from 4 March 1865 to 3 March 1867, succeeding William G. Brown and preceding Bethuel Kitchen.

Biography
George Robert Latham was born in Hamarket, Virginia in 1832, and he became a lawyer in Grafton (now in West Virginia) in 1859. He was a delegate to the Wheeling Convention in 1861 and served as a US Army captain during the American Civil War. He served as colonel of a cavalry regiment before being briefly court-martialled and dismissed, but he was brevetted a Brigadier-General in March 1865 and returned to the war. From 1865 to 1867, he served as an "Unconditional Unionist" in the US House of Representatives, and he served as a consul in Australia from 1867 to 1870. He died in Buckhannon, West Virginia in 1917.